(urth) Patera Inire

[Jeff Wilson]

On 7/18/2010 6:15 AM, John Watkins wrote:
> I know I keep pointing this out, but I think the correct resolution of
> this question in the New Sun universe and in Wolfe general is that
> insofar as a false religion achieves its ends it does so because it has
> been hijacked by the true religion.

Yes, that's what I was thinking, which can coexist with usual SF trope 
of the Fake Religion As a Secular Tool (see Dune, Foundation, The Day 
After Tomorrow, Cat's Cradle) even as it subverts it.

Pas and the Outsider both want to get the people of the Whorl where they 
are going, Inire and the Increate both want to deliver the Urth and the 
Human Race back into their natural condition under a healthy sun - thus 
the bad serves good, and the false proves faithful to the higher truth, 
like Severian says over and over again.

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